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Claim Labour and Conservatives formed alliances in councils is Half True
Ferret Fact Service looks at a claim about Labour and Conservative co-operation on local councils in Scotland.
Councils spent £200m on profit-making residential care providers for children and young people
Scottish councils have given up to £200m to private firms to provide residential care for children and young people, despite promising to move away from the practice four years ago.
Far right Homeland activists gain Scottish community councils seats
Members of a new far right organisation are members of Scottish community councils, we can reveal, prompting calls for an urgent investigation.
Corran ferry: Community councils say issues causing depopulation
Six Highland community councils have united to pressure the local authority to fix long standing issues at a ferry crossing which they claim are causing an exodus.
Scotland’s councils underspend on period products
Less than half of the funding allocated to Scotland’s councils in the run-up to the Period Products Act was spent on the provision of period products.
Locked gates and keep out signs: hundreds of access issues logged by councils
Landholders have allegedly blocked or deterred public access to Scotland’s paths more than 1,000 times in recent years according to data logged by local authorities.
The FFS Show 33: Are Councils Working?
Sam and Ali are back with a special podcast about our latest 'Are Councils Working?' series in conjunction with The Herald.
More than £1bn awarded to private firms by councils
Scottish councils have awarded contracts worth more than £1bn to private companies since 2015, The Ferret can reveal.
Scottish councils pay ‘eye-watering’ sums of interest to UK treasury
'Eye-watering' interest payments on borrowing from the UK treasury are further squeezing council budgets, campaigners have argued.
